Amendment Quote by Noam Chomsky

If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the…

— Ilana Mercer

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

— Robert Bork

As a young child, it became crystal clear to me that there were certain rights and privileges that other people had that my mother,…

— John Lewis

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

— Cass Sunstein

The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to apply to former slaves to ensure that they are treated like all other citizens.…

— Rush Limbaugh

“How could those who wrote the Constitution possibly understand its meaning better than those who had the experience of observing and participating in its…

— Jack N. Rakove

The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the…

— Ted Cruz

When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?

— Antonin Scalia

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

— James K. Polk

I think that for most of our history, there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the late Justice…

— Hillary Clinton

The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution...…

— Barack Obama

“Americans had to work around the requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment, and more broadly around their announced traditions of equality; and in consequence their…

— James Q Whitman